October 15, 2018
ABC 7 News, Diane Pathieu, October 12, 2018- The ongoing legal battle over so-called sanctuary cities is intensified , as lawyers for the City of Chicago filed another lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the city will file a new lawsuit Friday. This is all …
June 8, 2018
NBC Chicago, Alicia Victoria Lozano, June 6, 2018- In a decision that made Mayor Jim Kenney break out into song and dance, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot cut off grants to Philadelphia over how the city deals with undocumented immigrants. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson issued …
May 17, 2018
The Tennessean, Joey Garrison, May 15, 2018- The Nashville Metro Council on Tuesday called on Gov. Bill Haslam to veto legislation that seeks to ban sanctuary cities in Tennessee, joining Metro school board members, Nashville’s police chief and others in raising concerns about the pending bill. The council voted 21-4, with …
May 15, 2018
CBS Philly, Greg Argos, May 10, 2018- The City of Philadelphia is taking on the Trump administration. They headed to court on Thursday in the latest round in their fight over federal funds for sanctuary cities. The federal government has deemed Philadelphia a sanctuary city and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has withheld …
May 15, 2018
The Tennessean, Joel Ebert, May 10, 2018- On April 5, Guadalupe Campos got an early morning phone call from one of her mother’s co-workers at a meatpacking factory in East Tennessee. The co-worker told Campos that immigration officials had descended on the factory. The 18-year-old immediately went to the plant and …